Presentations from the Tenth Annual Conference on the Management of the Pakistan Economy
Day 1: Wednesday, 26 March, 2014
Keynote Address:
Growth Spurts and Reversals: A Historical Perspective
Rashid Amjad
Session 1: Macroeconomic management under constrained balance of payments and an open capital account
Monetary Policy, Inflation and Economic Growth
Mohsin Khan
Pakistan’s Parallel FX Market
Mushtaq Khan and Asma Khalid
Session 2: The Exchange Rate as a Policy Instrument
Foreign Liquidity Crisis and the Economy – Pakistan A Long Term Comparative View
Shakil Faruqi
Being “Afraid of Float” to “Benign Neglect”, A Jolting Ride of SBP on the Roller Coaster of Exchange Rate Regime
Syed Kumail Rizvi, Nawazish Mirza and Bushra Naqvi
What does the exchange rate do? “A status symbol?”
Sikander Rahim
Session 3: Pakistan and the World Trading Order
Changing Landscape of RTAs and PTAs: Analysis and Implications
Rashid Kaukab
Improving Regional Trade to Support Pakistan’s Economic Growth
Manzoor Ahmad
WTO New Trade Facilitation Agreement: Implications for domestic trade policy formulation of Pakistan
Ahmad Irfan Aslam and Mohammad Saeed
Session 4 – Imports: are they the villain in the piece?
Pakistan’s Imports Dependency and Regional Integration
Nasir Iqbal, Ejaz Ghani, Musleh-Ud-Din
Reviewing the Import Demand Function of Pakistan: A Time series Analysis from 1970 to 2010
Resham Naveed and Zunia Tirmazee
Day 2: Thursday, 27 March, 2014
Session 1: Pakistan’s Competitiveness
Towards a Competitive Pakistan: The Role of Industrial Policy
Irfan ul Haque
The Political Economy of Industrial Policy: A Comparative Study of the Textile Industry in Pakistan
Matthew McCartney
Barriers to Growth of Small Firms in Pakistan: A Qualitative Assessment of Selected Light Engineering Industries
Nazish Afraz, Syed M. Turab Hussain and Usman Khan
Session 2: Pakistan’s Export Performance
Exporters in Pakistan and Firms Who Do Not Export: What’s the Big Difference?
Theresa Thompson Chaudhry and Haseeb Ashraf
The Need for an Industrial Policy to Boost Pakistani Exports: Lessons from Asia
Azam Chaudhry and Gul Andaman
Session 3: Building up Pakistan’s technological capabilities
Foreign Direct Investment and Technological Capabilities: Relevance of the East Asian experience for Pakistan
Khalil Hamdani, Director (Retd.) UNCTAD
Pakistan Auto Industry
Nabeel Hashmi
Global Quality Requirements and their Compliance and Gaps within Pakistan’s Export Sector
Salman Ehsan and Ayesha Khanum
Session 4: Diversification – Markets and Exports
Pakistani Textiles: A Case for Moving up the Value Chain
Naved Hamid, Ijaz Nabi and Rafia Zafar
Patterns of Export Diversification in Pakistan
Hamna Ahmed and Naved Hamid